Abdallah Barghouti, prepared explosives for terror attacks in which 67 civilians were murdered

Marwan Barghouti, planned terror attacks in which at least 5 civilians were murdered

Karim Younes, kidnapped and murdered an Israeli soldier

Ahmad Sa'adat was the Secretary-General of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine

Hadash's message to terrorist murderers:

"Through you we will build a more beautiful tomorrow"

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Itamar Marcus and Maurice Hirsch

The Facebook page of the Israeli Arab Hadash party yesterday published a post expressing sympathy for and solidarity with Palestinian terrorist prisoners and their hunger strike. The post includes text (see translation below) and a video that opens with a picture that includes the hashtag "#The_[hunger]strike_of_dignity" and the pictures of four Palestinian arch-terrorists:

Abdallah Barghouti, prepared explosives for terror attacks in which 67 civilians were murdered

Marwan Barghouti, planned terror attacks in which at least 5 civilians were murdered

Karim Younes, kidnapped and murdered an Israeli soldier

Ahmad Sa'adat was the head of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, and

has been praised on Palestinian TV broadcasts for planning the murder of Israeli Minister of Tourism Rehavam Ze'evi

The picture of the terrorists is also shown again during the video as the following words are heard:

"Through you we will build a more beautiful tomorrow."

Also appearing in the video is a picture of prisoner Fuad Al-Shubaki, a PA official who was responsible for the weapons smuggling attempt on the ship Karine A in January 2002.

A segment from the song in the post's video praises the prisoners with the words:

The Hadash Party also called on Israeli Arabs to participate in activities of solidarity with the Palestinian prisoners throughout the country, and said that the terrorist prisoners "are paying the price for their just struggle." [Israeli Arab political party Hadash's Facebook page, April 19, 2017]

It would appear that the post constitutes a violation of Clause 24(B)(2) of Israel's Anti-Terror Law, which forbids publishing "praise, sympathy for, or encouragement of an act of terror, support of it, or solidarity with it."

The following is the text of the post on the Facebook page of the Hadash Party:

Headline: "MAKI and Hadash call to hold activities of solidarity with the prisoners on the ground"

"MAKI (i.e., the Communist Party of Israel) and [the Israeli Arab] Hadash [party] salute the prisoners in the occupation's prisons, who two days ago (Monday) launched a hunger strike - precisely on Palestinian Prisoner's Day, April 17 - against the occupation's tyranny and abuse. [MAKI and Hadash] call on the activists to launch a series of activities on the ground as a sign of solidarity with the prisoners in the Empty Stomachs Campaign that they are waging. MAKI and Hadash emphasize that the prisoners in the occupation's prisons are paying the price for their just struggle for the freedom of their people and its independence, as they are suffering every moment from the occupation's brutality and abuse, as well as the denial of their freedom. For dozens of years the prisoners' movement has known heroic campaigns of groups and individuals for an improvement in the conditions of their imprisonment. This is the most minimal of the [prisoners'] just demands, above which the demand to break the jailer's chains and shatter his bars and the demand for the freedom of an entire people remain unchallenged.

MAKI and Hadash call on their activists throughout the country to launch a campaign of activities on the ground and struggle activities in all of the cities and towns...."

[Israeli political party Hadash's Facebook page, April 19, 2017]

The song played in the video in honor of the Palestinian prisoners was originally a song of praise for Arab fighters by Lebanese singer Julia Boutros. The song is played as pictures of the five terrorist prisoners mentioned above are shown, as well as pictures of people protesting for the prisoners, and the times of the demonstrations for the prisoners. The following are the lyrics of the song "My Beloved":

Marwan Barghouti - Palestinian terrorist who is serving 5 life sentences for orchestrating three shooting attacks that killed 5 people: one attack in Jerusalem (June 12, 2001) in which Greek monk Tsibouktsakis Germanus was murdered by terrorist Ismail Radaida and another unidentified terrorist, another attack at a gas station in Givat Zeev near Jerusalem (Jan. 15, 2002) in which Yoela Hen, 45, was murdered by terrorists led by Mohammed Matla, and one shooting and stabbing attack at the Sea Food Market restaurant in Tel Aviv (March 5, 2002) in which Eli Dahan, 53, Yosef Habi, 52, and Police Officer Sergeant-Major Salim Barakat, 33, were murdered by terrorist Ibrahim Hasouna. When arrested by Israel in 2002, Barghouti headed the Tanzim (Fatah terror faction). After he was convicted and imprisoned, he was re-elected member of the Palestinian Authority parliament. On Dec. 4, 2016, he was elected to Fatah's Central Committee.

Ahmad Sa'adat - serving a 30-year sentence for heading the PFLP terror organization. A song at a PFLP event also praised him for planning the assassination of Israeli Minister of Tourism Rehavam Ze'evi in 2001, but he has not been tried for this crime.

Karim Younes - an Israeli Arab serving a 40-year sentence for kidnapping and killing Israeli soldier Avraham Bromberg in 1980 together with his cousin Maher Younes. Originally sentenced to life in prison, but Israeli President Shimon Peres reduced his sentence in 2012.

Fuad Al-Shubaki - a senior PA official who is serving a 20-year prison term. He was behind the attempt to smuggle 50 tons of illegal weapons to the Palestinian Authority aboard the Karine A weapons' ship in 2002.